AI Competition
Why Are China’s Memory Chip Makers Facing Growing U.S. Scrutiny?
China's memory chip industry has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom, transforming once loss-making manufacturers into powerful...
Why Fragmented AI Strategies May Become a Geopolitical Asset
From Pax Silica and WAICO to India’s open digital rails, Southeast Asia’s overlapping alignments could strengthen regional bargaining power—if interoperability turns diversity into agency.
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Sovereign Defense vs. Algorithmic Chaos: What China’s New WAICO Reveals About the Future of AI Governance
When the World AI Cooperation Organization launched in Shanghai on July 16, with 29 signatory nations and the UN Secretary-General in the room, the...
ASEAN’s AI Boom Has a Geopolitical Due-Diligence Problem
In March 2026, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Infrastructure built to support the Gulf’s...
China’s AI future is being shaped by its young generation
The annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is in full swing in Shanghai. At the opening ceremony, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote...
Xi Jinping’s 2026 World AI Conference Speech: What It Means for China and the Future of AI
China hosts the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai from July 17 to 20, Chinese officials...
Can China Lead a New Global AI Order and Challenge US Dominance?
Chinese President Xi Jinping has unveiled Beijing's most ambitious vision yet for the future of artificial intelligence (AI), presenting China as the architect of...
What Is CXMT and Why Is It China’s Leading DRAM Chipmaker?
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is preparing to raise at least 57.9 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) through an initial public offering (IPO) on Shanghai's STAR...
WAIC 2026: China’s AI Governance Model vs. the West
The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on (Global AI Governance) will be held in Shanghai, China from July 17 to...
Starved of Silicon: China Built Its Own
For four years, Washington has attempted to build a sophisticated industrial wall. This blockade aimed to stop China from getting the computer chips needed...